December 02013
So ends the month of December. 16 posts (13 if you exclude my devblog), adding up to ~16,800 words, much slimmer than November’s 21 posts at 22.4k words. I’ve had steadily increasing traffic, too, although I don’t really consider that a terribly important (or reliable, truth be told) metric. On 17 December I had the more »
Cowpaths
[Last updated on 25 Dec 2013- the newest version is here.] This blog revolves around my interest in organizations and interfaces that change behavior. With that broad topic, I’ve been able to slide around to pretty much anything I’ve read that interests me. I’ve pushed out about 70 posts since I started in late August, more »
Miscellaneous Notes
I’ve almost pulled together enough grist to cut down on the “miscellaneous notes” posts and scribble on something pseudo-consistent. I started writing on Huizinga to publish next week, but I may as well wait for the new year. The rest of the year’s posts will probably be housekeeping (lists of related posts, one last devblog more »
Report: 22 December
A day late. Bad form. I, uh, spent all of yesterday watching American Horror Story with Emily. Now I feel bad writing this, because I usually get a solid chunk of work done on Saturdays. I think this week work will be low-stress and maybe I can make up that time in the evenings. I’m taking more »
Notes: brains, coherence, wolfram
I. The Brains of Animals Even more animal cognition. I admit to quoting perhaps half of the article here. But the other half is also quite pretty, and worth a read. […] I confess I am astonished at how much mammalian brains resemble one another in their organization, architecture, and complexity. Just as human beings more »
Fitness Landscapes
Two “Edge” responses on a useful idea. Stewart Brand on Sewall Wright’s sketches, above (“Your favorite deep/elegant/beautiful explanation”): The first two illustrate how low selection pressure or a high rate of mutation (which comes with small populations) can broaden the range of a species whereas intense selection pressure or a low mutation rate can severely more »
Probabilistic Minarchism
A survey of Adam Gurri’s conception of Probabilistic Libertarianism and a permissionless society. Taleb’s Probabilistic Minarchism Writer Adam Gurri imagines Taleb’s political philosophy, taking into account his attitudes and arguments from Antifragile. First, he makes a good point here, and one I’d probably prefer to regurgitate when asked about my own ideas of an ideal more »
Report: 14 December
Some short updates on the tiny projects that flood the gaps of my free time. Probably most weeks will be focused on one or two projects at a time. ShamanGame That’s my working title system- [theme]game. It’s the working title for the strategy game my girlfriend and I are working on a little bit more »
Friday Notes
I should standardize my “notes/compilation” post titles. I’m annoying myself. I think while I’m reading some unrelated stuff, I might spend some more time wrapping up some more UpWing/DownWing archiving before I lose that thread entirely, since I’ve already got the requisite notes for them hanging around anyway. I may get back to that next more »
Fukuyama’s Vetocracy
There was a comedian- and for the second or third time here, I’m referencing a comedian whose name and set I don’t recall- anyway, there was a comedian who had a piece about how funny it is that we as Americans are always all about exporting democracy, but it never happens to be our own more »